A. A.'s Country-wide News Circuit

The Longview, Wash., Club has opened new quarters in The Alano Club, 215 Empire Building, Hudson and Commerce Streets. Regular meetings are each Wednesday and Saturday at 7:30 with visitors invited. The Longview Group is also putting out a card bearing the P.O. Box number 1028, and phone, 3075-J, with the admonition "Let us help you solve that drinking problem" and a four page leaflet with questions to determine whether the reader is an alcoholic and A.A. information. Clearwater, Fla., members have what our correspondent describes as "ideal" quarters for the group of 25, the former headquarters of the Garden Club with a palm tree which came to grief, and blew over, arching the doorway. The palm, a real alcoholic, has risen again and put out shoots. In spite of a small membership the Butte, Mont., Group found a good place with a kitchen adequate to prepare much coffee. A good many members are reported familiar with the surroundings, (formerly a speakeasy) but redecorated considerably, from new wall paper out. The ambition is to have the club open every night and that goal is being approached. About 50 volunteers showed up in Des Moines, Iowa, to help put the arch through the wall to take on 600 square feet of additional space for the club there and it was reported as a great cooperative effort. One member brought a crew of five with three trucks and air and hand hammers.